The word “hope” is one you are hearing a lot this week as heart-wrenching stories continue to come in from Israelis in the Jewish State and from Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
At the Tuesday night vigil at the Jewish Community Center in La Jolla, as reported by the San Diego Union Tribune, an employee standing at the gate helping direct people into the event, said that seeing the thousands of people coming to support her community in a time of need, many of them not Jewish, brought one thing to her mind. “In a word, she said “hope”.
An Israeli soldier, on one of the cable news channels Tuesday night, described in tears how he discovered his mother’s lifeless body covered with bullet wounds, saying that his hope was for an end to terrorism.
In Rome, Pope Francis today hoped and prayed for a stop to the attacks, saying that “terrorism and war do not lead to any solution, but only to the death and suffering of so many innocent people.”
There are millions upon millions pf people around the world hoping for an end one day to the many battles that go on between the forces of good and the forces of evil.
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